Photography Huia Takau
Remembering Together: Scottish Borders
Collective acts of reflection, remembrance, hope and healing with communities across Scotland
Tartan in the Tweed
Calling wild swimmers across the Scottish Borders
Join in
THREE FREE EVENTS - 2024
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Sun 9 June, 10am-12 noon, Dookits, Peebles
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Sat 17 August, 10am-12 noon, location TBC
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Sun 25 August, 10am-12 noon, location TBC
Movement artist Rhiana Laws and photographer Huia Takau are inviting wild swimmers to gather at locations along the river Tweed to share, remember & create.
Why we swim
Wild swimming became a refuge and lifeline for many Borderers during the pandemic offering health benefits, connection with nature and other humans. The legacy thrives through continued friendships and wellbeing. Join other wild swimmers to reflect upon what brought you, and still brings you, to the water.
You're invited
Swimmers will be guided through a memorable, respectful and creative experience involving making nature art, gentle moving, and bringing the Borders tartan to life using huge lengths of brightly coloured ribbon in the water of the Tweed. These events are to honour what brought folk to the water during the pandemic and will be captured by Huia Takau's stunning visual storytelling, shared in an online photographic gallery. (Photographic consent is optional and will be respected. Those not wishing to be photographed are welcome to join in).
Accessible
Locations: Dookits at Haylodge Park, Peebles PLUS 2 other locations TBC. Each location will seek to provide near by parking, pathways and easy entry/exit points to the water.
Remembering Together: the Scottish Borders is a Two Destination Language project commissioned by Greenspace Scotland with funding from Scottish Government.
